Prairie Village set to reveal proposed solution to persistent flooding along Mission Road

In the span of just a few weeks last summer, torrential rains sent Brush Creek pouring over its banks in Prairie Village twice, threatening motorists on Mission Road and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to homes and property in the vicinity of the Village Shops and Village Presbyterian Church.

Now, the city of Prairie Village thinks it has a solution to the problem. Keith Bredehoeft, the city’s public works manager, told the city council this week that engineers believed they had devised a plan to mitigate the threat of such catastrophic flooding damage in the future. While he said he could not reveal specific details until next week’s meeting, Bredehoeft indicated that the plan calls for “widening and lowering the [creek] channel along with raising Mission Road…”